Article on the adaptation of spoken language.

TEENAGERS ADAPTING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEAVING PARENTS CONFUSED.

Parents around England are left baffled by the strange language choice spoken by their teenager children.

Lots of people are aware that English language is continually changing but it seems that the younger generation have the biggest influence on the rapid race of the language evolving, leaving the older people stuck behind on the language. 

Texting and social media has been identified as the main cause for this, as teens have been adapting common spoken clauses to written abbreviations. Parents are finding it hard to understand the things their child is saying or implying when they use the new shorted terms. Things like; ‘I don’t care’ has been changed to ‘idc’ which originally was just written but now it is starting to be used verbally as well. This is leaving parents worried as their children are going through or coming up to taking important ‘English Language’ exams, where they will need to be able to speak and write in ‘proper’ English. 

Parents are feeling left out in this as they are able to communicate with people ages 13-19 without being left behind in the conversation due to the misunderstandings. English language is evolving to adapt to the younger generation as they are going to be contributing most to society in the near future. The Oxford Dictionary has added over 1,000 new words to the dictionary which is believed to be over the heads of many parents. Words like ‘Hangry (angry due to hunger)… and rando (a stranger acting oddly)’ have been added to the dictionary meaning they are now part of the English language but how is that fair because any of the English population over the age of 20 are unaware of their meaning?

However some words for when the parents were children are coming back around, words like ‘banter’ are becoming reborn and used by the youths, which once the parents pick up on they will continue to use excessively.” beer o’clock, bants” is a new addition to the online dictionary too which I could image to be used by the older people in the population as a lot of the teenagers are unable to legally drink, but as it was entered online it is thought that it must be used more frequently in online social network sites.

Adverts that use mixed-mode techniques

Abbreviated words; 'UK's safest broadband', 'You know they're good because they're Heinz', 'I'm lovin' it', 'Finger lickin' good'

Synthetic personalisation; 'The best coffee for the best you', 'Because your worth it', 'Have it your way', 'Share a coke with...'

Exaggeration; 'UK's safest broadband' 'Make game day awsomer' 'P-p-p-pick up a penguin', 'I woke up like this', 'Can't get anymore ribenary', 'Friendliest drink on earth', 'It will blow your mind'

Instructions; 'just do it', 'make delicious custard with bird's', 'Taste the rainbow'

Kaitie Hopkins article on Accents

The article this summary is about was last accessed on 15/09/2015- https://uk.news.yahoo.com/katie-hopkins--stephanie-mcgovern-and-northerners-sound-stupid-131026114.html#rfyMkQ3

In this article Katie Hopkins is slating the way Northerners, Liverpudlians and Geordies speak claiming that their accents make them sound stupid. She went on to say " Personally I can't stand a Brummie accent."


She highlighted the fact that the BBC are desperate to get a variety of different regional accents on their show to show that they believe in diversity. She then criticised the BBC choice in TV presenters as she says their accents are hard to understand and that viewer wouldn't want to watch the programs with presenters with accents as they would have to spend their time deciphering what they are saying.


The Devon born Lady went on the say that she believes that the London accent to be the 'clearest', she said "London is a first class city, surrounded by a second class Country.



I think that she is wrong to assume that everyone who has a strong accent is hard to understand, and to generalise her opinions to everybody else watching the presenter. What if you come from the same region as the person presenting the program? I'm sure they would have no problem in understanding them. Her opinions are very strong and judgement and a lot of the time are incorrect and many people cant relate to them. Accents help give people their identity, when you watch TV and you hear someone with the same accent as you immediately engages you to keep watching the program just so you can hear the way they talk as you can relate to it.

English grouping homework

Groups of words from the lesson; 

Miss-used words: Hate (D), Literally (D), Like (D), Trust (D), Mint (D) and Sweat (D).

Food:  Nugget(D), Gravy(D), Asparagus (D), Sprout(D) and Honey(D).

Adjectives: Amazing (L), Lush (L), Naive(L), Peng (L) and Moist(D).

Positive words: Flower (L), Home(L) and Love(L).

Negative words: Hate (D) Slut (D) and Inconvenient (L)

Food words are dislike most of the time, this could be because they are being associated with things that people dislike. Positive words are liked this may be because the word reminds them of happy experiences/ memories. Its likely that negative words are disliked this could also be down to them being associated with bad experiences.